Resource: February 22, 2017 Dear Colleague Letter

By: Sandra Battle, T.E. Wheeler II

February 22, 2018

United States Department of Education

The US Department of Education and the US Department of Justice rescind Obama-era guidance finding that schools receiving federal funding were required schools to treat students in a manner consistent with their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth. This included allowing students to use bathrooms and locker rooms and participate in sports consistent with their gender identity.

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201702-title-ix.pdf

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Institution: US Department of Education, US Department of Justice

Citation: Sandra Battle, Acting Assistant Sec'y for Civil Rights, U.S. Dep't of Educ., Dear Colleague Letter (Feb. 22, 2017), https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201702-title-ix.pdf.